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Projects

We host a series of major research projects, funded by organisations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Please see below for more information on a selection of major research projects in English Literature currently taking place or recently completed.

section of visit Palestine poster

Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Investigating how Palestine has been imagined in the public sphere in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

magnified dna strand

Double Helix history

This project thinks about the popular understanding of the work of DNA and, more particularly, how we might understand, represent, and visualise it. 

Communist march in Ukraine

Wars of Position

This AHRC funded project takes a new look at Communism in the West.

Modern cemetery with Irish flag

My Country, A Journey

A research based drama on the migrant experience in Britain.

Lady Emmeline Courtenay, c. 1375

Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

This project investigated the complex relationships between vocabulary, artefact and image.

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Lawrence of Arabia

FILM000073
The dramatic portrait of the famed British officer’s journey to the Middle East, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved films of all time. Assigned to Arabia during World War I, Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions into a strong guerrilla from and leads them to brilliant victories in treacherous desert battlefields, where they eventually defeat the ruling Turkish Empire.
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1962
217 mins
Columbia Pictures
Genres
Drama, Epic
Language
English,
Country of Origin
Britain
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http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000073
Winner of 7 Academy Awards including 1962 Best Picture and Best Director
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People with a connection to this film
Peter O'Toole (Actor)Alec Guinness (Actor)Anthony Quinn (Actor)Omar Sharif (Actor)David Lean (Director)Sam Spiegel (Producer)
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Lawrence of Arabia
Publications related to this film
Gene Phillips (2006) Adrian Turner (1994) Alain Silver and James Ursini (1992) Alexander Lyon Macfie (2007) Christina B. Kennedy (1994) Constantine Santas (2012) David Murphy Steven Charles Caton (1999)
Copies in the collection
DVD ENG/FIL/0391 Exclusive Limited Edition
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 04/01/2014 16:58